TOKYO, July 31 (Reuters) - Foreign investors remained net buyers of Japanese stocks for the week ended on July 26, capital flows data showed on Friday.
Foreigners bought a net 743.3 billion yen worth of shares in the week through July 19, after buying a net 571.9 billion yen in the week before that.
Japanese investors sold a net 331.6 billion yen of foreign bonds in the latest week after buying a net 1,643.8 billion yen the week before.
Details of net investments were as follows (in billion yen):
FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN JAPAN:
(net)
stocks bonds bills
July 20 - July 26 +743.2 -184.6 -1,392.0
July 13 - July 19 +571.9 -990.7 +1,476.4r
JAPANESE INVESTMENT ABROAD:
(net; a minus sign indicates net selling and inflows of funds into Japan)
stocks bonds bills
July 20 - July 26 +206.3 -331.6 57.5
July 13 - July 19 -333.6r +1,643.8r -87.6
Notes:
- An "r" denotes a revised figure.
- Bonds include beneficiary certificates.
- Figures are based on contracts and are rounded.
- The MOF's capital flows data can be found in English at:
http://www.mof.go.jp/international_policy/reference/itn_transactions_in_securities/week.pdf
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- Older weekly data are omitted if there are no revisions